Chasing the Boogeyman Quotes

“If I was shadows and moonbeams and tales of death and horror, she was sunshine and laughter and the yellow brick road from The Wizard of Oz . We balanced each other.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Innocence once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“When a monster is finally caught against all odds, it feels like magic.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“According to a 2009 study conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nearly 16 percent of American serial killers were adopted as children, while adoptees represent only 2 percent of the general population.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“I just knew there was… something inside of me, this bad thing, and it just needed, and I couldn’t tell anyone about it. I’d try to keep it locked up, behind a door, but sometimes I wasn’t strong enough.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Standing there in that frozen moment of space and time, I realized how vast the world around me really was and that one day soon I’d be leaving this place I’d always called home, to venture out on my own. My friends would also be scattered to the four winds, and some I would never see or talk to again. Our parents and brothers and sisters would grow old and eventually we’d have to say goodbye to them, too. Nothing would ever be the same.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“The author J. R. R. Tolkien had a word for that feeling—eucatastrophe. The opposite of catastrophe, and all the more important because it’s even rarer.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Maybe that’s what grieving is all about: never forgetting what we’ve lost.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Ever since I was a child, it was my favorite time of year—a season of absolute magic. The air smelled of ripe apples and dying leaves and wood smoke. The wind made you ache in some place deeper than your bones.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“a mythical landscape, an October Country, where Autumn is King and Mischief is Queen and anything is possible. The good, bad, miraculous, and unimaginable—it’s all right there, waiting for you in the month of October, hovering just beyond the reach of your fingertips.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Standing there in my pajamas, I thought: This is what you do when you have a family. You get up when it’s still dark outside and you go to work so the people you love can have a better life. Even when you’re sick or tired and don’t want to. I watched him for a while longer, my heart aching in a way I’d never felt before. “Love you, Dad,”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“I believe that most small towns wear two faces: a public one comprised of verifiable facts involving historical timelines, demographics, matters of economy and geography; and a hidden, considerably more private face formed by a fragile spiderweb of stories, memories, rumors, and secrets passed down from generation to generation, whispered by those who know the town best.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“The practice of cutting off the ears of conquered adversaries dated all the way back to the time of the Crusades, but didn’t become more prevalent until Native Americans began performing the ritual mutilation of fallen enemies on the battlefield.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Maybe that's what grieving is all about: never forgetting what we've lost.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“This is what you do when you have a family. You get up when it's still dark outside and you go to work so the people you love can have a better life. Even when you're sick or tired and don't want to.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Innocence, once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“According to a 2009 study conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nearly 16 percent of American serial killers were adopted as children, while adoptees represent only 2 percent of the general population. There’s even a condition known as Adopted Child Syndrome that has been used as a successful legal defense in a number of death penalty cases where the accused has been adopted.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman